Director, Procurement

Chomps · Remote

Company

Chomps

Location

Remote

Type

Full Time

Job Description

Who We Are 

We’re Chomps, the fastest-growing meat snack brand reimagining best-for-you snacking. Made from the highest quality, humanely raised proteins, no sugar, and only real ingredients, we make snacking simple, delicious, and nutritious. Chomps can be found in over 20,000 stores nationwide with a strong e-commerce presence. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and fuel our community with accessible, sustainable, and real food that tastes great.

Traits of a Chompian 

If you’ve been called scrappy, resourceful, and persistent, then you might just be a Chompian. You’re a team player who’s self-motivated and action-oriented. You’re committed to delivering efficiency and accuracy, and you happen to be great at proactive cross-functional communication. You’re a critical thinker and a natural problem solver who enjoys details, research, and data. You take initiative and complete ownership of everything you do, and you’ll go the extra mile for your team, consumers, and audience. You’re hungry to learn with a passion to grow and improve every day. You also take a keen interest in health, fitness, and nutrition. Sound like you? Then we want to meat you.

What You Will Do

As the Procurement Director you will Lead Procurement category strategy development, sourcing, supplier management and enterprise value creation for $160MM+ spend portfolio across protein, packaging, and raw materials. Accountable for all supplier relationships and performance. Accountable for all supplier relationships and performance.  Develop and drive a multi-year Procurement strategy roadmap focusing on cost savings, secondary sources of supply, and building strategic partnerships. This leader will help develop the function as it continues to support Chomps significant growth within the meat snacking category.

Responsibilities

  • Lead all Procurement activities for Protein, Packaging, and Ingredient spends for Chomps.
  • Rapid Results - Create value and drive margin through innovative cost savings initiatives (Protein, Packaging, and Raw Ingredients), while continuing to delight our consumers.  This can take the form of pricing negotiations, request for proposals (RFPs), supplier portfolio management, specification / formulation optimization, and logistics efficiencies.
  • Team Leadership – Lead and develop team of 2-3+
  • Category Strategy Development – Deliver best-in-class strategies that assure risk and maximize value.
  • Supplier Performance – Design and execute supplier performance scorecards and strategic relationship frameworks.
  • Sourcing & Contracts Management – Develop and execute sourcing strategies and negotiate contracts for best value and high level of service.
  • Lead team to deliver rapid results in a fast-paced and fast-growth environment – Developing strategic capabilities, establishing secondary supply sources, and driving initiatives to achieve value-creating outcomes
  • Effective leadership and coaching of team members to leverage leading Procurement practices
  • Sound technical knowledge/experience managing raw and pack procurement within CPG industry: proteins, packaging, seasonings, and inclusions.
  • Experience working in or with manufacturing partners to understand impact of raw materials in manufacturing environments and partnership to drive continuous improvement

Who You Are

  • 10+ years of previous experience in Global Sourcing, Supply Chain, and/or Procurement.  Protein (meat) and packaging experience is ideal. 
  • 5+ years leading teams
  • Demonstrated cost savings track record
  • Top-notch analytical/negotiation skills
  • Ability to toggle between strategic and detail oriented thinking
  • Strong executive presence, well-developed presentation, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills.
  • Ability to influence across multiple functional teams
  • Flexibility to adapt to dynamic and rapidly changing environments
  • Driven and motivated by accomplishing extraordinary objectives
  • Ability to travel to supplier locations domestically and internationally as needed



Position: Director, Procurement 

Reports to: Senior Director, Supply Chain

Location: Remote

Type: Full-Time, exempt

Salary Range Opportunity:

  • The salary range for this role is $150k - $160k + 25% annual bonus

Compensation Philosophy & Total Comp:

  • Our salary ranges are based on verified market data and our philosophy of paying competitively for our size and industry
  • Individual pay rate decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company
  • In addition to base salary, full-time team members receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401K 6% match, and monthly reimbursements for wellness and home office.

Other Perks:

  • Ability to make an impact: Join a rapidly growing and entrepreneurial-spirited team at a pivotal point to positively impact the food industry. 
  • Opportunities to grow: Advance within Chomps quickly based on outstanding performance.
  • Unlimited PTO and 10 paid holiday days. Hybrid & flexible remote schedule. Chicago office open to those in the area.
  • Paid maternity and paternity leave.
  • Bi-annual total team in-person activities.
  • Company-wide Continual Education budget.
  • Unlimited snacks: Enough meat sticks that if you wanted to eat your body weight in them you could (no judgment here).

Our Commitment

Chomps is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. To achieve our mission of making nutritious food more accessible we greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which comes from diversity of all types, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do and the smart thing for our business. 

We're aware of the research showing that historically underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a job if they don't believe that they meet all of the criteria. Do you hesitate to submit an application because you believe you need to check every box? Please apply anyway with a thoughtful cover letter! We would love to hear from you to discuss how you can help us build a great team at Chomps. 

Important Notice:

It has come to our attention that fraudsters have been posing as Chomps employees or recruiters and contacting job-seeking candidates regarding potential job opportunities. These fraudulent messages sometimes include a request for payment and confidential personal information. Please note that the Chomps recruiting process does not include asking candidates for payments or other confidential financial information.If you are applying for a job, you can confirm the legitimacy of a job posting by viewing current open roles: https://chomps.com/pages/chomps-careers. If you have questions please email us at [email protected]

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Date Posted

04/12/2024

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